An Arkansas lady was killed Wednesday at the noteworthy Snowden family home purportedly by a similar man who killed her mom and her mom’s nephew, on a similar property, almost 24 years prior, specialists said.
Martha McKay, 63, an individual from the Snowden family, was discovered dead on Wednesday inside the pilgrim style house at Horseshoe Lake in Crittenden County, Arkansas.
Dateline that representatives reacted to an alert at the Snowden house on Wednesday where Martha lived. At the point when they showed up, the secondary passage was open. As they scanned for a gatecrasher, they saw a man hop from an upstairs window, he said.
The interloper, later distinguished as 39-year-old Travis Santay Lewis, rushed to a close-by vehicle and endeavored to drive away, however, specialists said the vehicle stalled out in the yard. That is when Lewis ran from the vehicle and ran into the lake.
He was watched going under the water and never returned up, Sheriff Allen said in a news discharge. The Arkansas Game and Fish and Crittenden County Search and Rescue were called, and Game and Fish utilized their sonar hardware and Search and Rescue had the option to find and recuperate the body of the suspect.
The assemblages of the person in question and the suspect have been sent to the Arkansas Medical Examiner’s Office for cause and way of death.
Lewis was 16 when he confessed to the September 10, 1996, Horseshoe Lake murders of Martha’s mom, Sally Snowden McKay, and Sally’s nephew, Joseph Lee Baker, who was a notable Memphis blues/rock guitarist. It was trusted Lewis shot Sally and Lee since they surprised him as he endeavored to ransack the house. The structure was then determined to fire, Sheriff Allen included.
Lewis was condemned to 28 ½ years in jail and requested to serve in any event 70 percent of it, as indicated by the supplication deal. In the wake of going through 23 years in a correctional facility, Lewis was paroled in 2018, Sheriff Allen said.
Martha McKay, who moved to Horseshoe Lake from San Francisco after her mom’s homicide, had transformed Snowden House into a top of the line overnight boardinghouse and wedding scene.
I met her a couple of times and she was a pleasant, intriguing woman. She truly reestablished that spot back to its unique excellence, Sheriff Allen said. It’s such a catastrophe, and, well, awesome that a 16-year-old would submit these homicides and afterward you know, supposedly return and accomplish something so appalling once more.
Sheriff Allen told Dateline there were reports that Martha had been in contact with Travis Lewis during his time in jail, just as after he was discharged.
I think it was her strategic discover what befallen her mom and to see whether another person was included, Sheriff Allen said.
Sheriff Allen included that the case is still under scrutiny.